Vocabulary
1. precautions 防范
2.forsake 放弃;丢弃
4.timber 木料
5.carted [If you say that someone is putting the cart before the horse, you mean that they are doing things in the wrong order.]
6.conciliatory 愿意和解的; 调停的;安抚的
7.chinks 裂缝
8.knot-holes n. 木板上的节孔
9.wistful [Someone who is wistful is rather sad because they want something and know that they cannot have it.] e.g.He has a wistful look
10.mighty (置于形容词和副词之前表示强调)很，非常，十分
11.savage (狗等)凶猛地攻击，撕咬
12.limp [ to walk slowly and with difficulty because of having an injured or painful leg or foot]
13.plough up （通常指为种植作物而）犁（地），翻（土）
Expression
1.It had become usual to give Napoleon the credit for every successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune.
2.It was surmounted by a portrait of Napoleon.
3.The animals blood boiled with rage when they heard of these things being done to their comrades.
4.Animals heard this with a certain bewilderment, but Squealer was soon able to convince them that their memories had been at fault.
5.In the teeth of every difficulty, in spite of inexperience, of primitive implements......
6.A murmur of dismay went round.
7.Slowly the breeze lifted it away. The windmill had ceased to exist.
8.A cry of lamentation went up.
Sum
The fierce battle did not wake them up. The silence aggravates the oppression.
